FROM A SITE VISITOR: [Please see “Part One” of this series to read the visitor's initial comments]
F.: Unlike Neo-Vedanta teachers who encourage seekers to gain power and to gain the ability to dream positive dreams and to acquire more knowledge, Direct Path teachers will invite seekers to de-accumulate and to abandon all in order to understand All. A protégé said that on one of the many websites that reprint postings from this site, the following words introduced one excerpt:
The following [posting from Floyd] is not for those who might misunderstand; it is for those that want to go all the way down the “rabbit hole.”
The analogy is accurate, so what does it mean to go all the way down the rabbit hole? To understand the rabbit hole analogy (which Morpheus also used in the non-duality movie “The Matrix,” Part One) is to understand the Direct Path Method. In a novel by Lewis Carroll, a young girl named Alice embarks on nonsensical adventures which make up, on one level, a fantasy for children; on another level, the story is a parody of the formality and rigidity of England under Victoria’s rule; and on another level, the story offers a message of non-duality by the Realized writer.
To review the tale, Alice follows the white rabbit down a hole and meets the strangest beings imaginable, representing the nonsensical and illogical persons who populate the planet. Like all non-Realized persons, she is moving from one nonsensical adventure to another. While there, she sees the follies of humanity and the way that consciousness is warped when credibility is given to characters in what is merely a dream that is taken to be real. After finally being uncomfortable with all of the nonsense and the fear it is causing in her, she begins a quest: she begins a journey to escape the insanity of the bizarre “world” that she’s entered.
Down the rabbit hole, time runs backwards, showing that time and the characters/personas are all illusions. Eventually, Alice awakens, realizes that it was all a dream, that none of it was real at all, and that she is already where she was longing to be. In a later tale, Alice goes through the looking glass—through the mirror—and moves beyond image. Both works are non-dual writings and encapsulate the Direct Path Method which invites protégés who are lost in the dream and being driven by the fears and insanities of an illusory "world" to awaken and see the truth.
When a protégé states that the writings on this site are only for those who “want to go all the way down the ‘rabbit hole’,” he means that those who follow the Direct Path Method to the end will (1) look at “the world” and see all of the insane-like characters; (2) will see how illogical and unreasonable and insane-like their conduct is; (3) will be inspired to move beyond that insane “world” and all its fears; (4) will be inspired to begin the quest or “journey” to Reality; and (5) will awaken from the dream and see that they are already “where” they want to be, or more accurately, are already That Which They Seek.
The Direct Path Method takes no prisoners, gives short shrift to those who want to fight to defend their ego-states, gives nothing to anyone, encourages de-accumulation rather than more accumulating, takes away all of the mirages that persons have attached to, eliminates the “mind,” and deconstructs all false personas and roles and phony images in order to put an end to disharmony-causing personality once and for all. Afterwards, what manifests spontaneously and automatically is the sweetness of the resulting Void…the peace that manifests with being "in" The Sweet Void of zero concepts.
At that point, the Realized will truly taste what the Italians call il dolce di fare niente—“the sweetness of doing nothing.” Then, the Realized will shift to a level even beyond that and will experience something even simpler than “the sweetness of doing nothing,” namely, il dolce di Niente—“the sweetness of Nothing,” period.
Even after having tried the other three approaches to no avail, there is still no suggestion at all that those who are seeking via those methods should not do so. But on this site, the Direct Path Method is employed because it was that method which facilitated the Realization for this speck of consciousness called “floyd” and that turned the frustrated seeker of “something” and the unhappy accumulator of “everything” into the joyful finder of “nothing.” Now, the accompanying sweetness of merely being happens continuously without the doingness, without having to do anything or work at anything or practice anything or ritualize anything. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
(TOMORROW: The nisarga yoga approach)
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F.: Unlike Neo-Vedanta teachers who encourage seekers to gain power and to gain the ability to dream positive dreams and to acquire more knowledge, Direct Path teachers will invite seekers to de-accumulate and to abandon all in order to understand All. A protégé said that on one of the many websites that reprint postings from this site, the following words introduced one excerpt:
The following [posting from Floyd] is not for those who might misunderstand; it is for those that want to go all the way down the “rabbit hole.”
The analogy is accurate, so what does it mean to go all the way down the rabbit hole? To understand the rabbit hole analogy (which Morpheus also used in the non-duality movie “The Matrix,” Part One) is to understand the Direct Path Method. In a novel by Lewis Carroll, a young girl named Alice embarks on nonsensical adventures which make up, on one level, a fantasy for children; on another level, the story is a parody of the formality and rigidity of England under Victoria’s rule; and on another level, the story offers a message of non-duality by the Realized writer.
To review the tale, Alice follows the white rabbit down a hole and meets the strangest beings imaginable, representing the nonsensical and illogical persons who populate the planet. Like all non-Realized persons, she is moving from one nonsensical adventure to another. While there, she sees the follies of humanity and the way that consciousness is warped when credibility is given to characters in what is merely a dream that is taken to be real. After finally being uncomfortable with all of the nonsense and the fear it is causing in her, she begins a quest: she begins a journey to escape the insanity of the bizarre “world” that she’s entered.
Down the rabbit hole, time runs backwards, showing that time and the characters/personas are all illusions. Eventually, Alice awakens, realizes that it was all a dream, that none of it was real at all, and that she is already where she was longing to be. In a later tale, Alice goes through the looking glass—through the mirror—and moves beyond image. Both works are non-dual writings and encapsulate the Direct Path Method which invites protégés who are lost in the dream and being driven by the fears and insanities of an illusory "world" to awaken and see the truth.
When a protégé states that the writings on this site are only for those who “want to go all the way down the ‘rabbit hole’,” he means that those who follow the Direct Path Method to the end will (1) look at “the world” and see all of the insane-like characters; (2) will see how illogical and unreasonable and insane-like their conduct is; (3) will be inspired to move beyond that insane “world” and all its fears; (4) will be inspired to begin the quest or “journey” to Reality; and (5) will awaken from the dream and see that they are already “where” they want to be, or more accurately, are already That Which They Seek.
The Direct Path Method takes no prisoners, gives short shrift to those who want to fight to defend their ego-states, gives nothing to anyone, encourages de-accumulation rather than more accumulating, takes away all of the mirages that persons have attached to, eliminates the “mind,” and deconstructs all false personas and roles and phony images in order to put an end to disharmony-causing personality once and for all. Afterwards, what manifests spontaneously and automatically is the sweetness of the resulting Void…the peace that manifests with being "in" The Sweet Void of zero concepts.
At that point, the Realized will truly taste what the Italians call il dolce di fare niente—“the sweetness of doing nothing.” Then, the Realized will shift to a level even beyond that and will experience something even simpler than “the sweetness of doing nothing,” namely, il dolce di Niente—“the sweetness of Nothing,” period.
Even after having tried the other three approaches to no avail, there is still no suggestion at all that those who are seeking via those methods should not do so. But on this site, the Direct Path Method is employed because it was that method which facilitated the Realization for this speck of consciousness called “floyd” and that turned the frustrated seeker of “something” and the unhappy accumulator of “everything” into the joyful finder of “nothing.” Now, the accompanying sweetness of merely being happens continuously without the doingness, without having to do anything or work at anything or practice anything or ritualize anything. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
(TOMORROW: The nisarga yoga approach)
THE 15% OFF SALE ITEM FOR THIS WEEK IS CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS. FOR INFORMATION:
